Plot Summary: On December 8, 1941, the United States declared war on
Japan. For the next several years, U.S. forces were fully engaged in
battle throughout the Pacific, taking over islands one by one in a slow
progression towards mainland Japan. During this brutal campaign, the
Japanese were continually able to break coded military transmissions,
dramatically slowing U.S. progress. In 1942, several hundred Navajo
Americans were recruited as Marines and trained to use their language
as code. Marine Joe Enders is assigned to protect Ben Yahzee - a Navajo
code talker, the Marines' new secret weapon. Enders' orders are to
protect his code talker, but if Yahzee should fall into enemy hands,
he's to "protect the code at all costs." Against the backdrop of the
horrific Battle of Saipan, when capture is imminent, Enders is forced
to make a decision: if he can't protect his fellow Marine, can he bring
himself to kill him to protect the code?